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by sukilot 6y ago
You are describing Principal Engineers. Fellows are retired people who don't have to leave.
422.
by sukilot 6y ago
The have to do that in order to offer a machine that has a low price with their 40+% margin. Apple only does value-based pricing. They'd charge you a percentage of your income if they could figure out how.
423.
by sukilot 6y ago
If Apple sold a decent £1000 machine then they wouldn't sell £1800 machines.
424.
by sukilot 6y ago
You can upgrade to SSD. It's not supported but it's possible with normal tools.
425.
by sukilot 6y ago
Eh, Rosetta.
426.
by sukilot 6y ago
What's the point of maxing out CPU/GPU on a form factor that can't manage thermals?
427.
by sukilot 6y ago
Remember that by the time a case gets past indictment and plea bargain, almost every case is a conviction. Prosecutors aren't dumb. Variation in conviction is pre trial or even pre arrest, not at trial.
428.
by sukilot 6y ago
But why aren't juries swayed by the lawyers and defendants? I'd guess it's because conviction is binary, so there's very little signal for "guilty vs very guilty", "innocent vs maybe innocent"
429.
by sukilot 6y ago
Lots of prejudices. University grads are also likely to be socially stunted, uncreative, and less empathetic. Attractive people have the discipline and passion to put hard work into diet and exercise and makeup. They have good vision and t
430.
by sukilot 6y ago
How do you know the perform very well? I'd guess extremely unattractive people don't find sexual mates regardless of wealth.
431.
by sukilot 6y ago
Or making themselves unhealthy which harms their performance.
432.
by sukilot 6y ago
Women notice it more because women have much higher day to day variance in current attractiveness, due to makeup and fashion.
433.
by sukilot 6y ago
> I remember a very left forum in which someone bemoaned that one out of four homeless are women That sounds like an extreme mischaracterization. The concern about homeless women is the extra suffering the endure at the hands (and other
434.
by sukilot 6y ago
Because they look like brothers.
435.
by sukilot 6y ago
Most of tech's critical dealmaking is not done face to face. Both Gates and Zuck had substantial backing from their parents from the start. Bill Gates was given a huge gift horse via nepotism, in the IBM DOS contract. Zuck isn't a
436.
by sukilot 6y ago
Interestingly someone on this thread has boldly made the opposite claim, based solely on their own preconceived notions.
437.
by sukilot 6y ago
People those personality you like become more attractive to you. This is well studied as well as common sense (see every happy marriage).
438.
by sukilot 6y ago
Or by people imitating the appearance of extremely competent people.
439.
by sukilot 6y ago
How do you know your current biases aren't informed by your past misjudgements?
440.
by sukilot 6y ago
Are you sure? Being overconfident isn't more right than not knowing.
441.
by sukilot 6y ago
Why have you been on many juries?
442.
by sukilot 6y ago
Sure but PG is an individual pontificating his own musings for his fan club. He doesn't call himself the paper of record for the most powerful nation in the world.
443.
by sukilot 6y ago
The NYT was bullshiting, writing an article with no thesis and no meaningful evidence to push a vague opinion, which is pretty normal for them. PG was mad that they replaced his thoughtful letter with a junk article and pretended there was
444.
by sukilot 6y ago
> government and legality should not be arbiters of human morality Then what is the point of having government and legality at all?
445.
by sukilot 6y ago
It's not 4 months of full time work. It can be one email per day.
446.
by sukilot 6y ago
In many states you can get a legal separation before you divorce.
447.
by sukilot 6y ago
"No fault" is useless when there are children. The US has people who hire killers to murder their spouse in order to obtain custody of their children.
448.
by sukilot 6y ago
Unless you have children, right?
449.
by sukilot 6y ago
"religion" is a legal system f government that isn't grounded in a geographically-defined military. It can do good or bad just like a political system.
450.
by sukilot 6y ago
Marriage is a contract with dozens to hundreds of legal implications.

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